MIDNIGHTCOWBOY (THE CRITERION COLLECTION) [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1969
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: One of the British New Wave’s most versatile directors, John Schlesinger came to New York in the late-1960s to make Midnight Cowboy, a picaresque story of friendship that captured a city in crisis and sparked a new era of Hollywood movies. Jon Voight delivers a career-making performance as Joe Buck, a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy city women; he finds a companion in Enrico “Ratso” Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida, played by Dustin Hoffman in a radical departure from his breakthrough in The Graduate. A critical and commercial success despite controversy over what the MPAA termed its “homosexual frame of reference,” Midnight Cowboy became the first X-rated film to receive the best picture Oscar, and decades on, its influence still reverberates through cinema.
• Cast: Ann Thomas, Paul Rossilli, Viva, Ultra Violet, Paul Jabara, International Velvet, Cecelia Lipson, Taylor Mead, Joan Murphy, Al Stetson, Tina Scala, George Eppersen, T. Tom Marlow, Gary Owens, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Philip Bruns, Randall Carver, Marlene Clark, Robert Dahdah, William Door, Sandy Duncan, Trent Gough, Paul Jasmin, Jay Morran, Waldo Salt, Renee Semes, Alan Stetson, Jeffrey Walker, Richard Clarke, Alma Felix, Arthur Anderson, Al Scott, Peter Zamagias, Vito Siracusa, Peter Scalia, Paul Benjamin, Jan Tice, Bob Balaban, Anthony Holland, Jonathan Kramer, Georgann Johnson, Arlene Reeder, J.T. Masters, Linda Davis, Mary Boylan, M. Emmet Walsh, Bill Walters, Barnard Hughes, Ruth White, Jennifer Salt, Gilman Rankin, Pat Ast, Bernice, John Schlesinger, James Leo Herlihy
• Director: John Schlesinger
• Runtime: 1:53
• Company: JH Productions Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), United Artists, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment), The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie